Safe and healthy aging for LGBT elders, personal experiences of Naloxone users, and how national women’s health nursing and midwifery organizations are promoting alcohol-free pregnancies will be among research shared by ISER’s Center for Behavioral Health Research and Services (CBHRS) at the 2019 Health Summit in Anchorage, January 22-24. […]

Researchers in ISER’s Center for Behavioral Health Research and Services (CBHRS) conducted interviews with individuals who use heroin to explore ways individuals began opioid use and how their use progressed over time. Their report found that few participants began use with heroin but transitioned to heroin due to increased cost and reduced availability of prescription opioids. […]

Alaska economists Neal Fried, Scott Goldsmith, and Mouhcine Guettabi presented their economic forecasts for 2019 at a panel discussion on Wednesday, Jan. 9 at UAA. Their presentations are available for download. A video of the presentation will be available soon and posted on the ISER website. Check back or sign up to have the video and future ISER updates emailed to you.

"We expect employment to decline by 0.8% in 2018 and anticipate positive growth in 2019 equaling 0.793%. Between 2019 and 2025, we anticipate employment growth to average 0.68% per year," ISER's Mouhcine Guettabi writes in a recent Alaskanomics blog.

Since the start of the most recent recession, driven by the decline in oil prices and consequent contraction of government and private sector spending, the state has lost upwards of 13,000 jobs. But these losses have not been felt equally. ISER’s Mouhcine Guettabi uses employment data between June 2015 and June 2018, to show how each of Alaska’s 19 boroughs and 10 census areas have fared in this recent report.